Nebraska’s cybersecurity landscape is shaped by leaders working across government, consumer brands, critical infrastructure, food manufacturing, banking, retail, and professional services. What makes this group stand out is the range of environments they help secure, from public-sector systems and utility infrastructure to enterprise retail operations and complex corporate networks. Their backgrounds reflect the practical realities of modern cybersecurity leadership, where program building, risk management, incident response, governance, and business alignment all matter just as much as technical depth.
Bryce Bailey — Chief Information Security Officer, State of Nebraska
Bryce Bailey serves as chief information security officer for the State of Nebraska after progressing through deputy and interim CISO roles, bringing a background that blends federal, state, and local government cybersecurity experience. Before stepping into Nebraska’s top security post, he held multiple roles at CISA and previously served as security operations center manager for the City of Dallas, where he helped lead recovery efforts following the Royal ransomware attack and supported the creation of the Dallas Cyber Fusion Center. That combination of public-sector leadership, operational response experience, and program-building work gives him a strong profile for a statewide cybersecurity leadership feature.
Brian Hall — Senior Director of Cybersecurity, Conagra Brands
Brian Hall is senior director of cybersecurity at Conagra Brands, where he leads cybersecurity operations across functions including the fusion center, engineering, identity and access management, threat and vulnerability management, and operational technology cybersecurity. His path through Conagra shows steady progression from analyst and IT roles into cybersecurity leadership, including director- and manager-level security responsibilities with deputy CISO scope and oversight of the office of the CISO. That history gives him both institutional depth and broad exposure to security operations in one of Nebraska’s largest enterprise environments.
Chris Odell — Director of Information Security, Oriental Trading Company
Chris Odell serves as director of information security at Oriental Trading Company, following more than a decade in the company’s information security organization and earlier infrastructure and security consulting experience. His profile highlights long-term specialization in information security leadership, including previous time as information security manager and experience with architecture, threat mitigation, and consensus-building across teams and stakeholders. In a major Omaha-based retail business, that kind of long-tenured security leadership makes him a strong representative of Nebraska’s private-sector cybersecurity bench.
John Wilson — Director of Information Security, Omaha Steaks
John Wilson is director of information security at Omaha Steaks, where he has led enterprise cybersecurity strategy, risk management, executive reporting, and security modernization in a complex retail and e-commerce environment. His profile emphasizes the ability to translate cyber risk into business decisions, with work spanning IAM, PCI DSS, vendor strategy, incident readiness, security metrics, and emerging technology governance. After rising through multiple leadership roles at Omaha Steaks, he brings a combination of long-term organizational knowledge, executive-facing security leadership, and hands-on operational understanding that stands out in Nebraska’s broader cybersecurity landscape.
Timothy Pospisil — Director of Security Technology Outreach & Chief Security Officer, Nebraska Public Power District
Timothy Pospisil serves as director of security technology outreach and chief security officer at Nebraska Public Power District, where his role spans cyber, physical, and business continuity responsibilities tied to critical infrastructure protection. His profile reflects deep involvement in NERC CIP compliance, security operations center oversight, vulnerability management, endpoint and network protection, and broader utility-sector collaboration through external industry groups. That combination of cybersecurity, regulatory accountability, and infrastructure protection makes him one of the more distinctive security leaders in Nebraska, especially given the importance of public power systems to the state’s resilience.
Kary Cameron — Director, Information Security, FNBO
Kary Cameron is director of information security at FNBO, where her path into cybersecurity leadership has been shaped by experience across customer-facing banking, marketing, analytics, and security functions within the same institution. Her profile stands out for the way it connects information security with human behavior, process design, and business context, rather than treating security as a purely technical discipline. That broader operational perspective, combined with her current leadership role in one of Nebraska’s major financial institutions, makes her a compelling inclusion in a statewide cybersecurity spotlight.
Kurtiss Hammond — Cybersecurity Leader, Olsson
Kurtiss Hammond is cybersecurity leader at Olsson, where he has advanced through several security and network-related roles while helping strengthen cybersecurity for a large, multi-office engineering organization. His recent work includes GRC-focused responsibilities, vulnerability management improvements, policy development, client security requirement coordination, user education, and executive reporting, all pointing to a leader who has helped move the company’s security capabilities forward as the role matured. His profile reflects a practical, developing security leadership path rooted in execution, communication, and measurable program improvement.
A broadview of Nebraska’s cyber bench
What stands out across this group is the variety of ways cybersecurity leadership takes shape in Nebraska. Some are building security inside government and critical infrastructure. Others are leading mature programs in banking, food, retail, and professional services. Together, they show that Nebraska’s cybersecurity leadership is not concentrated in one industry or one type of role, but spread across the organizations that keep the state’s economy, services, and institutions running.
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